XX CONFIDENTIAL.
Sir,
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GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONG KONG.
14th December, 1938.
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File in cive.
I have the honour to refer to previous
correspondence terminating with your confidential (3)
despatch of 30th September, 1938, regarding the
re-adjustment of the salary scales of the Senior
Clerical and Accounting Staff, and to inform you
that, with a view to obtaining from officers of
this class options as to whether they wish to
transfer to the new scales, it is proposed to
announce the new scales together with details of
the regulations regarding quarters which will be
applicable to officers on those scales.
2.
The proposed regulations regarding
quarters applicable to officers on the new scales
are those recommended in the report of the Anomalies
Committee, which was transmitted to you under cover of my confidential despatch of 6th September, 1938, and although I have not yet received your decision
on the recommendations made in the Anomalies
Committee's report as a whole, it is observed that
recent offers of appointment by the Colonial Office
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
MALCOLM MACDONALD, M.P.,
&C., &C., &c.